a British proposal for an airborne aircraft carrier.
Category: War Machines
Martian War Machines, 1953
Blueprints of the 1953 Martian War Machine which were made as an Advertisement for the 1988 War of the Worlds TV Series.
“Howling Wolf” 1944
B-24 Liberator “Howling Wolf” in Italy, 15th Air Force, 1944
UK Tank Guide
Radio Linked Tanks, 1930
Tank Maneuvers Controlled by Radio
Developments in the mechanization of the army is the installation of radios in tanks for the transmission and receipt of orders. Control of tanks in action, since they were first introduced by the British during the World war, has been at once an important and difficult task, hitherto performed by officers who walked beside the tank and signaled with flags—a duty both dangerous and unsatisfactory. Modern tanks are now being equipped with radio, the company and section commanders having both receiving and short-wave transmitting sets, while the other tanks are only equipped to receive. The illustration shows a tank company advancing to clear the way for the infantry. The tank in the foreground is cut away to show the driver and the company commander seated in the turret. The commander has spotted the camouflaged pillbox in the left foreground and is sending an order by radio to the tank on his right to turn and smash the emplacement. Tanks shown here are armed with machine guns, other types are equipped with small cannon. (Modern Mechanix Dec, 1930)
Japanese Snowcruiser
Warfare spreads into the Antarctic, obviously inspired by Admiral Byrd’s Antarctic Snow Cruiser “Big Bertha”
USS Batfish, part 2
Photos taken below deck of the USS Batfish, Muskogee War Memorial Park, Muskogee, OK
USS Batfish
The USS Batfish, in seven war patrols, claimed a total of 15 ships sunk and damaged 3 others. She is also credited with the sinking of 3 enemy submarines.
“For extraordinary heroism in action against enemy Japanese combatant forces during the sixth War Patrol in the South China Sea from December 30, 1944 to March 3, 1945. Persistent and aggressive in her search for vital targets, the USS Batfish relentlessly tracked down the enemy and in three separate, brilliantly executed attacks, launched her torpedoes with devastating speed and skill and demolished three Japanese submarines. By the destruction of these formidable and threatening hostile Fleet units in a single War Patrol, the Batfish contributed significantly to the successful completion of the war. The courage, superb seamanship and gallant fighting spirit of her officers and men reflect the highest credit upon herself and the United States Naval Services.”
The USS Batfish now resides in Muskogee Oklahoma at the Muskogee War Memorial Park
The Master of the World, 1934
A German scientist designs and builds a machine that will do dangerous work instead of placing humans in jeopardy. But the machine itself turns out to have disastrous effects on the people involved. (IMDb)
Auto Union, WW2
Auto Union was an amalgamation of four German automobile manufacturers… Audi, Horch, DKW, Wanderer.
Following the outbreak of war, civilian production was halted and the company became a supplier of vehicles to Germany’s armed forces. Its logo, 4 overlapping rigs, survives today as the logo for Audi.
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